The Education Ministry will take decision on closing educational institutions as it is not the Health Ministry’s jurisdiction, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Sunday.

Two new coronavirus-infected patients have been detected in Bangladesh while the country suspended on arrival visas for all countries and stopped allowing passengers from Europe until March 31 to keep Bangladesh safe.

People coming to Bangladesh from infected countries will be kept in compulsory quarantine, Health Minister Zahid Maleque announced Saturday.

`Measles-Rubella Campaign 2020′, a 3-week campaign, will begin across the country on March 18.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Thursday urged the Bangladeshi expatriates living in different countries of the world not to return home right now unless it is a case of emergency.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Tuesday held an urgent meeting with the ambassadors of 30 countries at his house over the overall condition of coronavirus outbreak across the globe.

Amid growing concern over the outbreak of novel coronavirus in different parts of the world and the detection of three patients in Bangladesh, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said the government is fully ready to tackle the situation.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque on Wednesday urged the country’s people not to pay heed to any rumour over the coronavirus as a vested quarter is trying to mislead people with false information.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Monday said around 90,245 people were screened at airports, river, sea and land ports of the country as of February 10 in the wake of coronavirus outbreak in Chain.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque on Sunday told Parliament that there are 50,500 children with autism in the country as per a survey of the Department of Social Services.